From solid drinks to faulty train wrecks (and everything in between), the Almost Club is for wines that didn't hit the Australian Wine Review 'recommended' mark (17/20, 90/100) in August 2018.
Note that there is friendly …

A self explanatory title, here are 12 of the best 12 Chardonnay to pass the desk in July 2018.
If anything, this list just highlights the high standard of Chardonnay in Australia. Still our most planted white …

There's always questions when the founder of a famous winery leaves.
Will the wine style change? Prices go up? Labels disappear? No matter how many times the new owner says that it will be 'business as …

From great value quaffers to absolute train wrecks, this month's compilation of 'almost' wines is a biggun'.
I'm always conscious of my prejudice against overripeness and heavy-handed oak, but I call both as symptoms of poor …

It's 3 days late I know, but here are a few wines that almost hit the mark this month. Some are just good, simple drinks. Others are genuinely average to poor...
Hand Crafted Montepulciano 2016
From Geoff …

There a few wines that, when they land at Graham HQ, skip any sort of 'tasting' queue and go straight to the 'drinking' department. This Tolpuddle Chardonnay 2016 is such a beast.
Again, the beauty of …

I can easily see why you'd want to make wines on the Mornington Peninsula.
Close enough to Melbourne but still far enough away. Great beaches. A healthy local wine community. Distinctive terroir. In fact, the only …

Irrewarra. Mark that name down under your watch list.
Irrewarra is the new winemaking project of Nick Farr (yes, son of Gary) focused on a vineyard near the town of Irrewarra in western Victoria. Planted in …

Here's a selection of wines that were almost great.
Some are just good, solid wines that are occasionally unready, through to slightly underwhelming/unexciting, and rounded out with a few wines that miss the mark completely.
Why post …

New Zealand's Waipara Valley wine region has had a name change. Well, it's still Waipara, but the producers of this oft-overlooked (and glorious) wine region are now putting North Canterbury on labels instead.
Given that New …

For those unfamiliar with the brand, Kooyong are one of the top new generation wine producers on the Mornington Peninsula.
Principally known for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, this is an estate marked by thoughtfully made wines …

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About me – Andrew Graham

At 18 I started working in a small suburban bottleshop, largely to buy cheap beer. It was my first year of university, doing a degree that I didn't really like, and a liquor shop seemed like fun. Needless to say I discovered wine, my uni degree morphed into something completely different and wine/beer took over my life.

Almost twenty years later and I currently spend my days wearing many (wine) hats, mostly as a writer, presenter and marketer.

While wearing my writer cap I write features for the likes of National Liquor News, Gourmet Traveller WINE and the RAS plus I'm a Lifestyle FOOD channel wine expert. Read more about me here or get in touch to book your next wine event with me here.